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Mississippi historian David Sansing dies at age 86

David Sansing, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Mississippi and author of several books, has died at age 86. Sansing fell Friday...

Students, faculty react to Confederate monument resolutions

All four campus government organizations of the university’s shared governance have passed resolutions in the past several weeks calling for the relocation...

Ole Miss Confederate monument: Sparks releases first statement ahead of faculty senate, Staff Council votes

Updated: 7:20 p.m. Thursday The university faculty senate passed its resolution calling for the relocation of the Confederate monument in the Circle to...

OPINION: Why support the Confederate monument

Christianity has long been guilty of the sin of white supremacy. Slave ships had chaplains. Plantation owners “converted” their slaves to Christianity....

Opinion: Statue opinion must be challenged

In the heart of Oxford there stands a statue of a lone soldier who stares in perpetuity over the place which he once died for. For more than 100 years,...

Opinion: The University Greys: students, soldiers, sons of slaveholders

As secession fever swept the Slave South, young white men joined state militias en masse. By May 1861, only four months after Mississippi leaders declared...

Where is our responsible media?

Yesterday morning, a gunman went on a chaotic shooting spree in Southern California, killing four people, including himself, and injuring two. How many of you know about this shooting? As I was perusing my daily news sources, it struck me by how casual the news story seemed, shoved between a beer brewery story and a piece about a British man dying from a SARS-like virus....

Our campus and its symbols

I hesitate to write a column concerning the racial incident on campus this past week, but ultimately I feel compelled to add my opinion to the discussion, despite the abundance of more qualified analyses that already exist. The events of last Tuesday will forever remain somewhat unclear and inevitably influenced by individual perspective, but that does not mean they can...

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